The National Hurricane Center (NHC) forecast for October 12 said that Tropical Storm Leslie has weakened but the NHC is monitoring a system in the eastern tropical Atlantic.
The system, located a few hundred kilometers west of the Cape Verde Islands, off the west coast of Africa, is moving west and could develop into a tropical depression. The NHC forecasts a 40 percent chance of strengthening by at least the middle of next week.
AccuWeather forecasters say hurricanes could form between October 17 and 19 in the western Caribbean, the area where Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton formed.
An area of cyclonic air is expected to form over Central America next week. “From this large, slowly rotating low pressure area, a more pronounced area of showers and thunderstorms could form, from which a tropical depression or tropical storm could develop,” AccuWeather hurricane expert Alex DaSilva said.
There are still more than seven weeks left in the 2024 Atlantic hurricane season, which typically runs from June 1 to November 30. There have been 13 named storms so far this season. The next storms to form will be named Nadine and Oscar.
After about five weeks of relative quiet, the 2024 hurricane season — especially with the arrival of Hurricane Helene and Hurricane Milton — has turned into an above-average season, according to Colorado State University meteorologist Phil Klotzbach.
According to the Hurricanes page on the Northwest Pacific, from the Americas to Asia, from the Atlantic region to the Northwest Pacific hurricane center in 2024, there have been monster super storms, sweeping and causing huge damage in a series of countries.
Superstorm Beryl is the strongest storm recorded in July in the Atlantic region with maximum winds (July 2) reaching 270 km/h, gusts of 320 km/h, sweeping through a series of countries and islands in the Caribbean and Mexico before entering the state of Texas (USA) on July 8.
Typhoon Shanshan is one of the strongest storms to hit Japan in the past 50 years, with peak winds of 215 km/h and gusts of 260 km/h.
Super typhoon Yagi (typhoon No. 3 in the East Sea) from a level 8 storm when entering the East Sea, after 48 hours exploded into a super typhoon with winds of level 16, gusts above level 17 (260 km/h, gusts of 315 km/h), officially becoming the strongest storm in the past 30 years in the East Sea.
On the afternoon of September 7, storm No. 3 made landfall in Quang Ninh and moved deep into the mainland of Northern Vietnam, causing historic floods, flash floods, and landslides in many provinces and cities, causing extremely heavy damage.
Next are super storm Helene and super storm Milton, both of which are the most powerful super storms in the world in 2024 up to now, sweeping the state of Florida (USA).
Storms and super storms from the beginning of 2024 until now all have the common characteristic of increasing in intensity very quickly in a short period of time.
